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4: 50 From Paddingtonby Agatha ChristieISBN 0006157629 (0-00-615762-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: '4: 50 From Paddington'Book summary:Through the window of her first-class coach, Mrs. McGillicuddysees a woman being strangled in a passing train, No onebelieves her except her good friend Miss Marple. Now theinimitable sleuth must find a body and match wits with a killer [via]
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Any Human Heartby William BoydISBN 0241141788 (0-241-14178-8)
Softcover, Hamish Hamilton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Any Human Heart'Book summary:Logan Gonzago Mountstuart, writer, was born in 1906, and died of a heart attack on October 5, 1991, aged 85. William Boyd's novel Any Human Heart is his disjointed autobiography, a massive tome chronicling "my personal rollercoaster"--or rather, "not so much a rollercoaster", but a yo-yo, "a jerking spinning toy in the hands of a maladroit child." From his early childhood in Montevideo, son of an English corned beef executive and his Uraguayan secretary, through his years at a Norfolk public school and Oxford, Mountstuart traces his haphazard development as a writer. Early and easy success is succeeded by a long half-century of mediocrity, disappointments and setbacks, both personal and professional, leading him to multiple failed marriages, internment, alcoholism and abject poverty.
Mountstuart's sorry tale is also the story of a British way of life in inexorable decline, as his journey takes in the Bloomsbury set, the General Strike, the Spanish Civil War, 1930s Americans in Paris, wartime espionage, New York avant garde art, even the Baader-Meinhof gang--all with a stellar supporting cast. The most sustained and best moment comes mid-book, as Mountstuart gets caught up in one of Britain's murkier wartime secrets, in the company of the here truly despicable Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Elsewhere author William Boyd occasionally misplaces his tongue too obviously in his cheek--the Wall Street Crash is trailed with truly crashing inelegance--but overall Any Human Heart is a witty, inventive and ultimately moving novel. Boyd succeeds in conjuring not only a compelling 20th century but also, in the hapless Logan Mountstuart, an anti-hero who achieves something approaching passive greatness. --Alan Stewart, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Beautiful Losersby Leonard CohenISBN 0224618334 (0-224-61833-4)
Hardcover, Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beautiful Losers'Book summary:Leonard Cohen's 1966 Beautiful Losers is ambitiously filthy. Few Canadian novels before or since are as sexual, but there's more filth here than just squirming bodies. It is in fact the novel's psychological intimacy that will make you want a long, hot shower with astringent soap. Beautiful Losers is devoted exclusively to four characters, three of them points in a love triangle--the scholarly narrator, his Aboriginal wife Edith, and his lifelong "friend" and mentor F.--and the fourth a 17th-century Iroquois saint whose life the narrator obsessively researches. The protean, mercurial, and intense F. is a kind of artist of existence, one hopefully found more often in fiction than in reality. Though capable of buying a factory or winning an election, F. is often destitute and glad to rob sustenance and sex from his friends. He has taken the narrator as a protégé (or a victim) of his increasingly dangerous tests of desire. Surviving the hedonistic, self-destructive deaths of F. and the unfaithful Edith, the unnamed scholar even seems humiliated as narrator, as if he's cleaning up his own apartment after a party he didn't plan.
Canada has had a bumper crop of poet-novelist switch hitters: Margaret Atwood, Robert Kroetsch, Anne Michaels, Michael Ondaatje. Their novels are sure to dazzle with their language, but some readers may lower their expectations of plot and character. Similarly, Cohen the poet will snare you with his introverted, confessional prose, so easily lent to the aphorism. "Grief makes us precise." "What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate." "I am not enjoying sunsets, then for whom do they burn?" These dagger-like pensées, along with the sheer inscrutability of F., will sustain those readers who don't like sunshine (again, it's very claustrophobic inside this book), while plot purists may find the masturbatory plot, well, masturbatory. --Darryl Whetter [via]
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The Body in the Libraryby Agatha ChristieISBN 0061003646 (0-06-100364-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Body in the Library'Book summary:Agatha Christie's genius for detective fiction is unparalleled. Her worldwide popularity is phenomenal, her characters engaging, her plots spellbinding. No one knows the human heart--or the dark passions that can stop it--better than Agatha Christie. She is truly the one and only Queen of Crime.
The Body in the Library
The body of a beautiful blonde is found in the library of Gossington Hall. What the young woman was doing in the quiet village of St. Mary Mead is precisely what Jane Marple means to find out. Amid rumors of scandal, Miss Marple baits a clever trap to catch a ruthless killer. [via]
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The Book of Danielby E. L. DoctorowISBN 0375508341 (0-375-50834-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Daniel'Book summary:The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia.
His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the story opens, his parents have been dead for many years. He has had a long time to adjust to their deaths. He has not adjusted.
Out of the shambles of his childhood, he has constructed a new lifemarriage to an adoring girl who gives him a son of his own, and a career in scholarship. It is a life that enrages him.
In the silence of the library at Columbia University, where he is supposedly writing a Ph.D. dissertation, Daniel composes something quite different.
It is a confession of his most intimate relationshipswith his wife, his foster parents, and his kid sister Susan, whose own radicalism so reproaches him.
It is a book of memories: riding a bus with his parents to the ill-fated Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill; watching the FBI take his father away; appearing with Susan at rallies protesting their parents innocence; visiting his mother and father in the Death House.
It is a book of investigation: transcribing Daniels interviews with people who knew his parents, or who knew about them; and logging his strange researches and discoveries in the library stacks.
It is a book of judgments of everyone involved in the caselawyers, police, informers, friends, and the Isaacson family itself.
It is a book rich in characters, from elderly grand- mothers of immigrant culture, to covert radicals of the McCarthy era, to hippie marchers on the Pen-tagon. It is a book that spans the quarter-century of American life since World War II. It is a book about the nature of Left politics in this countryits sacrificial rites, its peculiar cruelties, its humility, its bitterness. It is a book about some of the beautiful and terrible feelings of childhood. It is about the nature of guilt and innocence, and about the relations of people to nations.
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Centaurby John UpdikeISBN 0394418816 (0-394-41881-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Centaur'Book summary:"A triumph of love and art." THE WASHINGTON POST
In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a blizzard, Caldwell sees his son grow and change as he himself begins to lose touch with his life. Interwoven with the myth of Chiron, the noblest centaur, and his relationship to the Titan Prometheus, "The Centaur" is one of Updike's most brilliant novels.
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Clive Barker's the Thief of Alwaysby Kris Oprisko, Gabriel HernandezISBN 1932382690 (1-932382-69-0)
Softcover, Diamond Book Distributors
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Clive Barker's the Thief of Always'Book summary:Master of horror Clive Barker's Thief of Always is a fable appealing to horror and fantasy fans young and old. Now IDW brings you its own lavishly illustrated adaptation of the thrilling tale. Mr. Hood's Holiday House has stood for a thousand years, welcoming countless children into its embrace. It is a place of miracles, a blissful round of treats and seasons, where every childhood whim may be satisfied... for a price. [via]
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Crystal Singerby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0345327861 (0-345-32786-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crystal Singer'Book summary:Her name was Killashandra Ree. And after ten grueling years of musical training, she was still without prospects. Until she heard of the mysterious Heptite Guild who could provide careers, security, and wealth beyond imagining. The problem was, few people who landed on Ballybran ever left. But to Killashandra the risks were acceptable.... [via]
D Is for Deadbeatby Sue GraftonISBN 0312939027 (0-312-93902-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Dirt Musicby Tim WintonISBN 0330490265 (0-330-49026-5)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dirt Music'Book summary:Arguably one of the finest of all Australian novelists, Tim Winton shows that he remains in top form with Dirt Music, a wistful, charged, ardent novel of female loss and amatory redemption. The setting is Winton's favorite: the thorn-bushed, sheep-farmed, sun-punished boondocks of Western Australia. The cast is limited but spirited: the two chief protagonists are Georgie Jutland, a fortysomething adoptive mother with a vodka problem, and Luther Fox, a brooding, feral, bushwhacking poacher.
The plot is something else altogether: an elegantly wearied, cleverly finessed mutual odyssey that opts to follow the sometimes intertwining, sometimes diverging lives of poor Georgie and Luther as they try to deal with the odd alliance they comprise, as well as the complex and fractured lives they want to leave behind. The way Georgie deals with her unwitting inheritance of two dissatisfied adopted kids is particularly touching, poignant, and well written.
Best of all, though, is the prose. Somehow it manages to be simultaneously juicy and dry, like a desert cactus. This is especially true when Winton touches on the scented harshness of the Down Under outback: "the music is jagged and pushy and he for one just doesn't want to bloody hear it, but the outbursts of strings and piano are as austere and unconsoling as the pindan plain out there with its spindly acacia and red soil." This is a wise and accomplished novel. --Sean Thomas, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Dr. Thorneby Anthony TrollopeISBN 1419116665 (1-4191-1666-5)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr Thorne'Book summary:Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles. [via]
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East WestISBN 0394280938 (0-394-28093-8)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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East, Westby Salman RushdieISBN 0224041347 (0-224-04134-7)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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Excellent Womenby Barbara Pym, A. N. WilsonISBN 014310487X (0-14-310487-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Excellent Women'Book summary:An unqualifiedly great novel from the writer most likely to be compared to Jane Austen, this is a very funny, perfectly written book that can rival any other in its ability to capture the essence of its characters on the page. Mildred Lathbury, the narrator of Pym's excellent book is a never-married woman in her 30s--which in 1950s England makes her a nearly-confirmed spinster. Hers is a pretty unexciting life, centered around her small church, and part-time job. But Mildred is far more perceptive and witty than even she seems to think, and when Helena and Rockingham Napier move into the flat below her, there seems to be a chance for her life to take a new direction. [via]
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The Fifth Childby Doris May LessingISBN 0224025538 (0-224-02553-8)
Hardcover, Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fifth Child'Book summary:The married couple in this novel pull off a remarkable achievement: They purchase a three-story house with oodles of bedrooms, and, on a middle-class income, in the '70s, fill it to the brim with happy children and visiting relatives. Their holiday gatherings are sumptuous celebrations of life and togetherness. And then the fifth child arrives. He's just a child--he's not supernatural. But is he really human? This is an elegantly written tale that the New York Times called "a horror story of maternity and the nightmare of social collapse . . . a moral fable of the genre that includes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and George Orwell's 1984." [via]
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Five Children and Itby Edith Nesbit, H.R. MillarISBN 0140367357 (0-14-036735-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Five Children and It'Book summary:[via]While exploring the environs of their summer home, five brothers and sisters find a Psammead, or Sand-fairy, in a nearby gravel pit: Its eyes were on long horns like a snails eyes, and it could move them in and out like telescopes; it had ears like a bats ears, and its tubby body was shaped like a spiders and covered with thick soft fur; its legs and arms were furry too, and it had hands and feet like a monkeys. The Psammead is magical and, every day, the ancient and irritable creature grants each of them a wish that lasts until sunset. Soon, though, they find their wishes never seem to turn out right and often have unexpectedand humorousconsequences. But when an accidental wish goes terribly wrong, the children learn that magic, like life, can be as complicated as it is exciting.
- First time in Penguin Classics
- Soon to be a feature film starring Kenneth Branagh with Eddie Izzard as the voice of the Psammead
- Contains an enchanting introduction by children's literature scholar Gillian Avery about the complex and unconventional Nesbit
- Includes all of the original illustrations, suggestions for further reading, and explanatory notes
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- Five Children and It: ISBN 0143039156 (0-14-303915-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Five Children and It: ISBN 0060537248 (0-06-053724-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - Five Children and It: ISBN 0140350616 (0-14-035061-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Five Children and It: ISBN 0192831631 (0-19-283163-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Five Children and It: ISBN 0194229734 (0-19-422973-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Five Children and It: ISBN 0140367357 (0-14-036735-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Foeby J. M. CoetzeeISBN 014009623X (0-14-009623-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Fountains of Paradiseby Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 0345347943 (0-345-34794-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Girl With Curious Hairby David Foster WallaceISBN 0393313964 (0-393-31396-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girl With Curious Hair'Book summary:Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent " (Jennifer Levin, New York Times Book Review).
Girl with Curious Hair is replete with David Foster Wallace's Remarkable and unsettling reimaginations of reality. From the eerily "real," almost holographic evocations of historical figures like Lyndon Johnson and overtelevised game-show hosts and late-night comedians to the title story, where terminal punk nihilism meets Young Republicanism, Wallace renders the incredible comprehensible, the bizarre normal, the absurd hilarious, the familiar strange. [via]More editions of Girl With Curious Hair:
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Giving Treeby Shel SilversteinISBN 0060256656 (0-06-025665-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Giving Tree'Book summary:To say that this particular apple tree is a "giving tree" is an understatement. In Shel Silverstein's popular tale of few words and simple line drawings, a tree starts out as a leafy playground, shade provider, and apple bearer for a rambunctious little boy. Making the boy happy makes the tree happy, but with time it becomes more challenging for the generous tree to meet his needs. When he asks for money, she suggests that he sell her apples. When he asks for a house, she offers her branches for lumber. When the boy is old, too old and sad to play in the tree, he asks the tree for a boat. She suggests that he cut her down to a stump so he can craft a boat out of her trunk. He unthinkingly does it. At this point in the story, the double-page spread shows a pathetic solitary stump, poignantly cut down to the heart the boy once carved into the tree as a child that said "M.E. + T." "And then the tree was happy... but not really." When there's nothing left of her, the boy returns again as an old man, needing a quiet place to sit and rest. The stump offers up her services, and he sits on it. "And the tree was happy." While the message of this book is unclear (Take and take and take? Give and give and give? Complete self-sacrifice is good? Complete self-sacrifice is infinitely sad?), Silverstein has perhaps deliberately left the book open to interpretation. (All ages) --Karin Snelson [via]
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- Giving Tree: ISBN 0060256664 (0-06-025666-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Giving Tree: ISBN 006028451X (0-06-028451-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - Giving Tree: ISBN 0060586753 (0-06-058675-3)
Hardcover, Harperaudio - Giving Tree: ISBN 0060256656 (0-06-025665-6)
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- Giving Tree: ISBN 0060256664 (0-06-025666-4)
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The Giving Tree: Holiday Editionby Shel SilversteinISBN 0060840986 (0-06-084098-6)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Giving Tree: Holiday Edition'Book summary:To say that this particular apple tree is a "giving tree" is an understatement. In Shel Silverstein's popular tale of few words and simple line drawings, a tree starts out as a leafy playground, shade provider, and apple bearer for a rambunctious little boy. Making the boy happy makes the tree happy, but with time it becomes more challenging for the generous tree to meet his needs. When he asks for money, she suggests that he sell her apples. When he asks for a house, she offers her branches for lumber. When the boy is old, too old and sad to play in the tree, he asks the tree for a boat. She suggests that he cut her down to a stump so he can craft a boat out of her trunk. He unthinkingly does it. At this point in the story, the double-page spread shows a pathetic solitary stump, poignantly cut down to the heart the boy once carved into the tree as a child that said "M.E. + T." "And then the tree was happy... but not really." When there's nothing left of her, the boy returns again as an old man, needing a quiet place to sit and rest. The stump offers up her services, and he sits on it. "And the tree was happy." While the message of this book is unclear (Take and take and take? Give and give and give? Complete self-sacrifice is good? Complete self-sacrifice is infinitely sad?), Silverstein has perhaps deliberately left the book open to interpretation. (All ages) --Karin Snelson [via]
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The Giving Tree With Gift Cardby Shel SilversteinISBN 0060099402 (0-06-009940-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Giving Tree With Gift Card'Book summary:To say that this particular apple tree is a "giving tree" is an understatement. In Shel Silverstein's popular tale of few words and simple line drawings, a tree starts out as a leafy playground, shade provider, and apple bearer for a rambunctious little boy. Making the boy happy makes the tree happy, but with time it becomes more challenging for the generous tree to meet his needs. When he asks for money, she suggests that he sell her apples. When he asks for a house, she offers her branches for lumber. When the boy is old, too old and sad to play in the tree, he asks the tree for a boat. She suggests that he cut her down to a stump so he can craft a boat out of her trunk. He unthinkingly does it. At this point in the story, the double-page spread shows a pathetic solitary stump, poignantly cut down to the heart the boy once carved into the tree as a child that said "M.E. + T." "And then the tree was happy... but not really." When there's nothing left of her, the boy returns again as an old man, needing a quiet place to sit and rest. The stump offers up her services, and he sits on it. "And the tree was happy." While the message of this book is unclear (Take and take and take? Give and give and give? Complete self-sacrifice is good? Complete self-sacrifice is infinitely sad?), Silverstein has perhaps deliberately left the book open to interpretation. (All ages) --Karin Snelson [via]
In This House of Bredeby Rumer GoddenISBN 0333102339 (0-333-10233-9)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Indian in the Cupboardby Brock Cole, Lynne Reid BanksISBN 1557360340 (1-55736-034-0)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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James Bond 007: Casino Royaleby Ian Fleming, John McLusky, Henry Gammidge, George LazenbyISBN 1840236744 (1-84023-674-4)
Softcover, Titan Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'James Bond 007: Casino Royale'Book summary:The legend continues! Titan Books presents the further adventures of the world's greatest secret agent, in this third instalment of a classic action series! After spending over a year on a fruitless search for Ernst Stavro Blofeld and his sinister organisation, Spectre, Bond decides he's had enough and pens his letter of resignation! Before he can deliver it, however, fate smiles on him once more and it's not long before he has ingratiated himself with the Corsican Mafia, managed to get back on Blofeld's trail and got involved with a beautiful woman...This new edition also features an exclusive introduction by OHMSS Bond star, George Lazenby, and background material created solely for this series. [via]
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A James Bond Omnibusby Ian FlemingISBN 156731161X (1-56731-161-X)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A James Bond Omnibus'Book summary:Thunderball James Bond is in disgrace. His medical report is critical of the high living that is ruining his health, and M packs him off to a health farm to be tuned up to his former pitch of exceptional fitness. Bond expects a trying two weeks. The last thing he expects is an adversary more deadly, more ruthless even than SMERSH. On Her Majesty's Secret Service High in the air of the Swiss Alps a set-up is planned. A man is hunting respectability with all the cunning that made him Europe's most ruthless criminal. Nothing is to stand in his way. Especially not 007. And Bond, too, has a lot on his mind. . . she is so beautiful, so sensual, that the charms of bachelorhood seem oddly tarnished. Bond is skating on very thin ice. You Only Live Twice In this sequel to the tragic "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", Bond is depressed and adrift. M decides to send him on an impossible mission to revive his spirits: he must go to Japan to acquire a new ciphering method from "Tiger" Tanaka, head of the Japanese Secret Service. Tanaka finally agrees, but asks in return that Bond assassinate an infamous recluse who owns a garden filled with deadly animals and poisonous plants, where people have been going to commit suicide - The Garden of Evil [via]
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Leave it to Psmith: Library Editionby P.G. WodehouseISBN 158567432X (1-58567-432-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leave it to Psmith: Library Edition'Book summary:A full cast of Wodehouse creations--including tyrannical relatives, beastly acquaintances, demon children, and literary fatheads--return for further near catastrophes and sparkling comedy Overlook is proud to present four more antic selections from comic genius, P.G. Wodehouse. A Damsel in Distress is an early novel about Belpher Castle, the idyllic home of the aristocratic Marshmoreton family and a precursor to the Blandings series. Leave it to Psmith is a comedy adventure involving crime and gunplay, all set into motion by an umbrella in the Drones Club and Mulliner Nights is a series of stories about the inimitable Mr. Mulliner, his extraordinary relations, and the tipsy bishops, angry baronets, lady novelists, and haughty dowagers who frequent the bar-parlor of the Angler's Rest. Meanwhile, Lord Chuffy' Chuffnell borrows the services of Jeeves in Thank You, Jeeves, while pursuing the love of his life, but when he finds out that Jeeves's employer, Bertie Wooster, was once engaged to Pauline himself, fearsome complications develop. [via]
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Lincolnby Gore VidalISBN 1568496265 (1-56849-626-5)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lincoln'Book summary:Bicentenario del nacimiento de Lincoln.
En una manana del frio invierno de 1861, Abraham Lincoln, presidente electo de unos Estados Unidos al borde de la desintegracion, baja del tren en Washington flanqueado por dos policias vestidos de civil y oculto el mismo bajo un disfraz, pues los rumores acerca de un complot para asesinarle no hacen mas que crecer. En los cuatro anos siguientes el hombre que ha prometido unir a una nacion dividida por la cuestion de la esclavitud sera victima de varios atentados contra su vida. Y mientras el general Lee lucha a las puertas de la capital, Lincoln vive aislado en la Casa Blanca, presidiendo un gobierno dividido, y tratado incluso por los correligionarios republicanos con desprecio.
Gore Vidal nos muestra a Lincoln a traves de los ojos de sus amigos, sus enemigos, sus futuros asesinos, y el resultado es un retrato que es a la vez intimo y monumental, una novela que se ha convertido en todo un simbolo de los valores mas arraigados de la democracia y en un clasico de la novela historica moderna.
El inicio de 2009 se abre con la toma de posesion de Obama y con los actos de conmemoracion del bicentenario de Lincoln, el artifice de las enmiendas de la Constitucion que conllevaron la abolicion de la esclavitud. Una lectura muy indicada para el momento en que vivimos. [via]
The Magic Toyshopby Angela CarterISBN 0140256407 (0-14-025640-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hoodby Howard PyleISBN 1421986868 (1-4219-8686-8)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood'Book summary:Recounts the legend of Robin Hood, who plundered the king's purse and poached his deer and whose generosity endeared him to the poor. [via]
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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hoodby Scott McKowenISBN 1402714564 (1-4027-1456-4)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood'Book summary:He stole from the rich and gave to the poor, and in so doing became an undying symbol of virtue. But most important, Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men offer young readers more than enough adventure and thrills to keep them turning the pages. Who could resist the arrows flying, danger lurking, and medieval intrigue?[via]More editions of The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood:
Moonheartby Charles De LintISBN 0312890044 (0-312-89004-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Morality Playby Barry UnsworthISBN 0393315606 (0-393-31560-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Mr. Vertigoby Paul AusterISBN 0140231900 (0-14-023190-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mr. Vertigo'Book summary:Paul Auster, the New York Times-bestselling author of The New York Trilogy presents a dazzling, picaresque novel set in the late 1920s the era of Babe Ruth, Charles Lindbergh, and Al Capone. Walter Claireborne Rawley, renowned nationwide as "Walt the Wonder Boy," is a Saint Louis orphan rescued from the streets by a mysterious Hungarian Jew, Master Yehudi, who teaches Walt to walk on air. Master Yehudi brings Walt into a Kansas circus troupe consisting of Mother Sioux and Aesop, a young black genius. The vaudeville act takes them across a vast and vibrant country, through mythic Americana where they meet and fall prey to sinners, thieves, and villains, from the Kansas Ku Klux Klan to the Chicago mob. Walt's rise to fame and fortune mirrors America's own coming of age, and his resilience, like that of the nation, is challenged over and over and over again.[via]More editions of Mr. Vertigo:
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An Old-fashioned Girlby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0140374493 (0-14-037449-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Old-fashioned Girl'Book summary:Polly never questioned the way she was until she went to visit her city cousins. Fanny looks too glamorous to be Polly's age and wouldn't be caught dead sledding down a hill. Only Tom, Fanny's brother, supports Polly as she tries to see where she fits in. By the author of "Little Women". [via]
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On Her Majesty's Secret Serviceby Ian FlemingISBN 1567310796 (1-56731-079-6)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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Pageby Tamora PierceISBN 0375829075 (0-375-82907-5)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Page'Book summary:As the only female page in history to last beyond the first year of formal training to become a knight, 11-year-old Keladry of Mindelan has an uphill battle to fight. In addition to proving herself worthy of being a page, Kel spends her time defending first-year pages from bullies, staying on top of homework, conquering her paralyzing fear of heights, and keeping up with Lord Wyldon's grueling physical training schedule. Kel's detractors do everything in their power to thwart her progress, from tormenting her friends to sabotaging the Midwinter Festivities to kidnapping her maid and dog on the day of final examinations. The tide of resistance begins to turn slightly during the summer between Kel's second and third years, when she leads a team of pages in defensive maneuvers against renegade bandits--coincidentally on the same day that she gets her first period!
Tamora Pierce revisits the imaginary Kingdom of Tortall in this sequel to First Test: Protector of the Small. Fans of Pierce's exotic fantasy sequences will be hard-pressed to put either book down. Kel is a valuable role model: she's proud of being a girl, and she never wavers in her conviction that she can do anything a boy can--and usually do it better. Some rather bloody battles as well as discussions about Kel's developing body make this book appropriate for more mature readers. (Ages 10 to 14) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Partnershipby Barry UnsworthISBN 0393321479 (0-393-32147-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Partnership'Book summary:Booker Prize-winning author Barry Unsworth's first novel, published for the first time in the United States.
Foley and Moss are partners in a successful small business, making plaster pixies for the tourist trade. Foley is the artistic member of the partnership; he thinks up the ideas and designs and has pretensions to even greater artistry in his cherub lamps and fixtures. Moss, the seemingly quiet one who supplied the capital for the venture, manufactures them. Barry Unsworth sets his scene magnificentlya Cornish village, Lanruan, thriving on specious tourism, and its local characters: Graham, the primitive painter; Bailey, the loud-mouthed Northerner who comes to Lanruan to make his fortune; Barbara, the nearest thing the village possesses to a bad girl; and above all Gwendoline, who, inadvertently, begins the rift in the partnership between Foley and Moss. The Partnership is a disquieting, darkly funny tale about hidden desires and the unspoken attachments we have for one another. [via]More editions of The Partnership:
Phineas Finnby Anthony Trollope, Jacques Berthoud, T. L. B. HuskinsonISBN 0192835335 (0-19-283533-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Phineas Finn'Book summary:The second of Trollope's Palliser novels tells of the career of a hot-blooded middle-class politician whose sexual energies bring him much success with women. [via]
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Piercing the Darknessby Frank PerettiISBN 1581345275 (1-58134-527-5)
Softcover, Good News Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Piercing the Darkness'Book summary:The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
John 1:5 (ESV)It all begins in Bacons corner, a tiny farming community far from the interstate. An attempted murder, a suspicious case of mistaken identity, and a ruthless lawsuit against a struggling Christian school threaten the peace of the small town. Sally Beth Roe, a young loner, finds herself in the middle of events beyond her control, fleeing for her life while trying to recall her dark past. She doesnt realize that a demonic army is growing in power and that a spiritual battle is rapidly approaching.
This companion volume to This Present Darkness offers readers a new perspective on spiritual warfare, prayer, and the seemingly coincidental events of our lives. It has sold over 2 million copies.
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Quarantineby Jim CraceISBN 0312199511 (0-312-19951-1)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Quarantine'Book summary:The story of Jesus's 40 days in the wilderness is surely among the most celebrated and widely diffused narratives in Western culture. Why, then, would Jim Crace choose to retell it in strictly naturalistic, non-miraculous terms? The obvious answer would be that the godless novelist is trying to debunk divinity--to take the entire New Testament down a notch. And at first, this does seem to be the case. Crace's Jesus first got religion as an adolescent, and "was transformed by god like other boys his age were changed by girls." His peers view his spiritual fervor as a youthful eccentricity. Even now, as the thirtysomething Jesus heads out to the Judean desert for his 40-day retreat, he's perceived by his fellow anchorites as a flighty and impractical Galilean. They even call him "Gally" for short--and what sort of deity answers to a nickname?
Yet Crace is hardly the jeering materialist we might expect. As Jesus takes to his cliff-top cave, the author renders his religious transports without a hint of irony, and with a linguistic elegance that can hardly be called disrespectful: "The prayers were in command of him. He shouted out across the valley, happy with the noise he made. The common words lost hold of sound. The consonants collapsed. He called on god to join him in the cave with all the noises that his lips could make. He called with all the voices in his throat." And while most of the temptations of Christ are visited upon him by humans--by the motley crew of his cave-dwelling neighbors--he resists them with what we can only call superhuman will. Quarantine does, of course, operate on a fairly realistic plane. Jesus dies of starvation long before his 40-day fast is complete, and his fellow retreatants, who take center stage throughout much of the novel, are much too confused and brutal ever to figure in any Sunday school pageant. Still, Crace leaves at least the possibility of resurrection intact at the end, which should ensure that his brilliant book will rattle both believers and non-believers alike. [via]
Severed Headby Iris MurdochISBN 0140020039 (0-14-002003-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Shining Onesby David EddingsISBN 0345388666 (0-345-38866-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shining Ones'Book summary:As he seeks to recover Bhelliom, the lost jewel of power, Sparhawk meets the Shining Ones, beings whose touch brings death. By the author of The Seeress of Kell. 250,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo. [via]
The Ship Who Sangby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0345334310 (0-345-33431-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Sixteen Pleasuresby Robert HellengaISBN 1569470065 (1-56947-006-5)
Hardcover, Soho Pr Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sixteen Pleasures'Book summary:In 1966, 29-year-old Margot Harrington heads off to Florence, intent on doing her bit to protect its precious books from the great floods--and equally intent on adventure. Serendipity, in the shape of the man she'll fall in love with, leads her to an abbey run by the most knowing of abbesses and work on its library begins. One day a nun comes upon a shockingly pornographic volume, bound with a prayer book. It turns out to be Aretino's lost erotic sonnets, accompanied by some rather anatomical engravings. Since the pope had ordered all copies of the Sixteen Pleasures burned, it could be worth a fortune and keep the convent autonomous. The abbess asks Margot to take care of the book and check into its worth: "We have to be cunning as serpents and innocent as doves," she warns.
Soon our heroine finds her identity increasingly "tangled up" with the volume and with Dottor Postiglione, a man with an instinct for happiness--but also one for self-preservation. Margot enjoys the secrecy and the craft (the chapters in which she rebinds the folios are among the book's finest). Much of the book's pleasure stems from Robert Hellenga's easy knowledge, which extends to Italian complexities. Where else would you learn that, in cases of impotence, legal depositions are insufficient: "Modern couples often take the precaution of sending postcards to each other from the time of their engagement, leaving the message space blank so that it can be filled in later if the couple wishes to establish grounds for an annulment." Luckily, however, there are also shops that sell old postcards, "along with the appropriate writing instruments and inks."
Though The Sixteen Pleasures is initially in the tradition of American innocent goes abroad to encounter European experience, Hellenga's depth (and lightness) of characterization and description lift it high above its genre. And what better book than one about loving and loving books? [via]
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Stargirlby Jerry SpinelliISBN 037582233X (0-375-82233-X)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stargirl'Book summary:"She was homeschooling gone amok." "She was an alien." "Her parents were circus acrobats." These are only a few of the theories concocted to explain Stargirl Caraway, a new 10th grader at Arizona's Mica Area High School who wears pioneer dresses and kimonos to school, strums a ukulele in the cafeteria, laughs when there are no jokes, and dances when there is no music. The whole school, not exactly a "hotbed of nonconformity," is stunned by her, including our 16-year-old narrator Leo Borlock: "She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl."
In time, incredulity gives way to out-and-out adoration as the student body finds itself helpless to resist Stargirl's wide-eyed charm, pure-spirited friendliness, and penchant for celebrating the achievements of others. In the ultimate high school symbol of acceptance, she is even recruited as a cheerleader. Popularity, of course, is a fragile and fleeting state, and bit by bit, Mica sours on their new idol. Why is Stargirl showing up at the funerals of strangers? Worse, why does she cheer for the opposing basketball teams? The growing hostility comes to a head when she is verbally flogged by resentful students on Leo's televised Hot Seat show in an episode that is too terrible to air. While the playful, chin-held-high Stargirl seems impervious to the shunning that ensues, Leo, who is in the throes of first love (and therefore scornfully deemed "Starboy"), is not made of such strong stuff: "I became angry. I resented having to choose. I refused to choose. I imagined my life without her and without them, and I didn't like it either way."
Jerry Spinelli, author of Newbery Medalist Maniac Magee, Newbery Honor Book Wringer, and many other excellent books for teens, elegantly and accurately captures the collective, not-always-pretty emotions of a high school microcosm in which individuality is pitted against conformity. Spinelli's Stargirl is a supernatural teen character--absolutely egoless, altruistic, in touch with life's primitive rhythms, meditative, untouched by popular culture, and supremely self-confident. It is the sensitive Leo whom readers will relate to as he grapples with who she is, who he is, who they are together as Stargirl and Starboy, and indeed, what it means to be a human being on a planet that is rich with wonders. (Ages 10 to 14) --Karin Snelson [via]
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The Stepford Wivesby Ira LevinISBN 0060080841 (0-06-008084-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stepford Wives'Book summary:All the beautiful people live in the idyllic village of Stepford, Connecticut, an affluent suburban Eden populated with successful, satisfied hubbys and their beautiful, dutiful wives. For Joanna Eberhart, a recent arrival with her husband and two children, it all seems too perfect to be true -- from the sweet, accommodating Welcome Wagon lady to all those cheerful, friendly faces in the supermarket checkout lines. But just beneath the town's flawless surface, something is sordid and wrong -- something abominable with roots in the local Men's Association. And it may already be too late for Joanna to save herself from being devoured by Stepford's hideous perfection.
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Three Livesby Gertrude SteinISBN 0140181849 (0-14-018184-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Lives'Book summary:Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounded by women who were trapped by poverty, class, and race into lives that offered little choice. Her portraits of Anna and Lena are examples of realistic depictions of immigrant women who had no occupational choice but to become domestic workers. This collection of documents from the history of women's suffrage, medical history, modernist art, and literature enables readers to see how radical Stein's subject was.[via] 
Three Livesby Linda Wagner-Martin, Gertrude SteinISBN 0312183569 (0-312-18356-9)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Thrones, Dominationsby Dorothy L. Sayers, Jill Paton WalshISBN 0312968302 (0-312-96830-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thrones, Dominations'Book summary:Asked by her new husband, the gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey, why she is having trouble writing her latest mystery novel, Harriet Vane explains, "When I needed the money, it justified itself. It was a job of work, and I did it as well as I could, and that was that. But now, you see, it has no necessity except itself. And, of course, it's hard; it's always been hard, and it's getting harder. So when I'm stuck I think, this isn't my livelihood, and it isn't great art, it's only detective stories. You read them and write them for fun." Is this a clue to the mystery of why Dorothy L. Sayers put aside her 13th full-length Lord Peter novel in 1938 and never finished it? She had made lots of money, and was much more interested in translating Dante and writing about religion. Or is it another excellent novelist, Jill Paton Walsh, speculating--in a perfect imitation of Sayers's voice--on what might have happened? Walsh was invited by the estate of Sayers's illegitimate son, Anthony Fleming, to finish Thrones, Dominations. She has done a splendid job, certain to please Sayers loyalists on the "dorothyl" listserv as well as those new to the Wimsey canon. Lord Peter has been made much more human and interesting by marriage; Harriet is a wise and acerbic companion; and the story, about the murders of two beautiful young women involved with a theatrical producer, is full of twists and connivance. There's also a fascinating subplot involving the soon-to-abdicate King Edward VII and a country on the brink of World War II. Earlier Wimseys in paperback include The Five Red Herrings, Gaudy Night, Murder Must Advertise, and Unnatural Death. Books in print by Walsh include a mystery called A Piece of Justice and a novel, The Serpentine Cave. [via]
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To Your Scattered Bodies Goby Philip Jose FarmerISBN 0345419677 (0-345-41967-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Your Scattered Bodies Go'Book summary:To Your Scattered Bodies Go is the Hugo Award-winning beginning to the story of Riverworld, Philip José Farmer's unequaled tale about life after death. When famous adventurer Sir Richard Francis Burton dies, the last thing he expects to do is awaken naked on a foreign planet along the shores of a seemingly endless river. But that's where Burton and billions of other humans (plus a few nonhumans) find themselves as the epic Riverworld saga begins. It seems that all of Earthly humanity has been resurrected on the planet, each with an indestructible container that provides three meals a day, cigarettes, alcoholic beverages, a lighter, and the odd tube of lipstick. But why? And by whom?
That's what Burton and a handful of fellow adventurers are determined to discover as they construct a boat and set out in search of the river's source, thought to be millions of miles away. Although there are many hardships during the journey--including an encounter with the infamous Hermann Goring--Burton's resolve to complete his quest is strengthened by a visit from the Mysterious Stranger, a being who claims to be a renegade within the very group that created the Riverworld. The stranger tells Burton that he must make it to the river's headwaters, along with a dozen others the Stranger has selected, to help stop an evil experiment at the end of which humanity will simply be allowed to die. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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Trout Fishing in Americaby Richard BrautiganISBN 0385290837 (0-385-29083-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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A Wedding in Decemberby Anita ShreveISBN 0316154512 (0-316-15451-2)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Wedding in December'Book summary:At an inn in the Berkshire Mountains, seven former schoolmates gather to celebrate a wedding--a reunion that becomes the occasion of astonishing revelations as the friends collectively recall a long-ago night that indelibly marked each of their lives. Written with the fluent narrative artistry that distinguishes all of Anita Shreve's bestselling novels, A Wedding in December acutely probes the mysteries of the human heart and the endless allure of paths not taken. [via]
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De LA Ceniza Volverasby Ray BradburyISBN 844507363X (84-450-7363-X)
Hardcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Polonia/Polandby James A. MichenerISBN 968131557X (968-13-1557-X)
Softcover, Ediana/Edivision-Mexico
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Striptease/Stripteaseby Carl Hiaasen, Demi MooreISBN 8401463149 (84-01-46314-9)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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007 James Bond Im Dienste Ihrer Majestat/in Her Majesty's Serviceby Ian FlemingISBN 3502559295 (3-502-55929-5)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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